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Fine structure of the singular set of area minimizing hypersurfaces modulo $p$

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-07 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Consider an area minimizing current modulo pp of dimension mm in a smooth Riemannian manifold of dimension m+1m+1. We prove that its interior singular set is, up to a relatively closed set of dimension at most m2m-2, a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} submanifold of dimension m1m-1 at which, locally, NpN\leq p regular sheets of the current join transversally, each sheet counted with a positive multiplicity kik_i so that iki=p\sum_i k_i = p. This completes the analysis of the structure of the singular set of area minimizing hypersurfaces modulo pp, initiated by J. Taylor for m=2m=2 and p=3p=3 and extended by the authors to arbitrary mm and all odd pp in arXiv:2105.08135. We tackle the remaining case of even pp by showing that the set of singular points admitting a flat blow-up is of codimension at least two in the current. First, we prove a structural result for the singularities of minimizers in the linearized problem, by combining an epiperimetric inequality with an analysis of homogeneous minimizers to conclude that the corresponding degrees of homogeneity are always integers; second, we refine Almgren's blow-up procedure to prove that all flat singularities of the current persist as singularities of the Dir\mathrm{Dir}-minimizing limit. An important ingredient of our analysis is the uniqueness of flat tangent cones at singular points, recently established by Minter and Wickramasekera in arXiv:2111.11202.

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@article{arxiv.2201.10204,
  title  = {Fine structure of the singular set of area minimizing hypersurfaces modulo $p$},
  author = {Camillo De Lellis and Jonas Hirsch and Andrea Marchese and Luca Spolaor and Salvatore Stuvard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.10204},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

44 pages. Comments are very welcome! In v2 we have strengthened the conclusions of Theorem 1.4